September 2nd - Lake Ohrid to Skopje

 Off to Skopje today, the country’s capital. 

After spending all morning to get here we took off for a bit of a wander about town.  We were out walking for a couple of hours and must admit that our first impressions were not that favourable.  It’s a modern….ish sort of city with a bit of a ‘Turkish’ old town, neither of which are terribly exciting.  One of our first observations were the number of huge statues, they’re just everywhere!  Apparently some bright spark decided that these statues would make the city look like Paris and that would bring in additional revenue from tourism! 👎😳🤔

Alexander the Great !

Another early observation was that the local bus service uses red double-deckers, straight from London.  It’s not unusual to see these used in cities as ‘Hop-on, Hop-off’ touristy type services but here in Skopje they use them for their original purpose.  Apparently the city started to use them in the communist era 1950’s, and have continued to use them ever since. 

On our travels we visited the Memorial House of Mother Theresa and, OMG, what a building!  With its ugly mix of styles, it’s just totally bizarre, and just another oddity to add to the city’s collection of weirdo monuments. 

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